Comedy is hard.
(see below) Writing comedy and being funny are two separate things. I’m now officially spending several evenings each week working on the spec pilot I’ve been wanting to write for over a year and it’s very clear that writing is hard enough on its own – writing something truly funny is feeling impossible. But that’s...
It’s easy: it’s hard.
I haven’t always had it easy. Who has? I take that back. I actually have ALWAYS had it easy. Easier than almost everyone ever. I’ve been spared nearly all imaginable traumas, I have marketable talents, my parents are alive, people enjoy my company, I’m deeply in love with a beautiful wife and I have healthy...
I am pretending to be a Science Fiction writer.
I’m simultaneously working on two stories set in the future. One way way ahead and the other really close. Is that a bad idea? Two totally different worlds, with absolutely different tones and formats and stories to tell. This is true: the one in the distant future takes place in Brooklyn and the one in...
